(vasep.com.vn) While shrimp and pangasius exports must grapple with trade barriers imposed by importers, Vietnam tuna has favorable conditions to increase sales thanks to expansion of importing markets. However, tuna exporters are being put under strain due to raw tuna undersupply. A sharp decrease in ocean tuna catch through the year to date was attributable to shortage of raw material.

(seafood.com)  Spanish fishing

The Philippines could soon ship tuna products duty-free to the European Union under its next round of trade preference scheme for developing countries.

Japan is urging to cut the catch of Pacific bluefin tuna of three years old and younger by 15 percent, reported JDP.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first seven months of 2013, Vietnam imported US$348.8 million of fish products, downed 11.5 percent over the last year. In which, India was the leading supplier with total value of US$49.3 million, accounting for 14.2 percent. Vietnam mainly bought raw black tiger shrimp from India to process and export.

While commitments to source pole-and-line tuna pleased some NGOs, the lack of supply has put increasing pressure on retailers and suppliers. Over the past few years, the resurgence of pole-and-line caught tuna as an international commodity has become an “extremely sensitive” subject between retailers, importers and green campaigners as the sides argue the merits -- both commercial and ecological -- of the fishing practice.

How to manage the bluefin tuna resource in the northern Pacific is the focus of an international meeting that started Monday in Japan’s southwestern city of Fukuoka.

(vasep.com.vn) In the first 8 months of 2013, Khanh Hoa province exported 5,000 MT of tuna in whole round, representing 30 percent less than that of a year ago.

(vasep.com.vn) Vietnam is one

(vasep.com.vn) On 1st September

The aquaculture company Balfegó has

(SeafoodSource) On Wednesday the

At present ocean tuna is one of Vietnam’s

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) aims to

Greenpeace sounds the alarm on the state of Philippine tuna, calls for action to ensure a sustainable tuna industry. General Santos City, Philippines, September 8, 2013 – Greenpeace today warned major tuna industry players in the Phillippines that unless drastic measures are put into place to halt the decline of the world’s tuna stocks there will be no future for their mutli-billion peso businesses.